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How To Be Alone

A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, shot, animated by hand and edited. The video was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was produced by Bravo!FACT www.bravofact.com For more information on Tanya, go to www.tanyadavis.ca or visit her facebook page at http You can purchase her first two CDs Make A List and Gorgeous Morning on iTunes and look out for her third CD which will be released in the fall! For more information on Andrea Dorfman, visit her facebook page www.facebook.com or www.andreadorfman.com This video was shot on a Panasonic HVX 200 and the animation was hand drawn+painted and then scanned into Adobe After Effects, exported as QTs and edited on FCP. HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there. There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke). And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta

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  3. iamme737
    April 5th, 2011 at 18:26 | #3

    Glad I accidently clicked this :) …I shall share b(^_^)…good job!

  4. Pug40
    April 5th, 2011 at 20:25 | #4

    still loving this video <3

  5. The517105
    April 6th, 2011 at 06:42 | #5

    I’m eating my late dinner alone right now….I likes b/c of many reason ! By the way awesome video..

  6. Pinkspiderable
    April 6th, 2011 at 07:25 | #6

    I don’t like being alone : ( It reminds me of all I have lost. Yet I chose to spend a great deal of time alone because it some how empowers me. I don’t think any of us are truly alone in the physical sense. Mental loneliness is the very hardest for me.

  7. mikybee93
    April 6th, 2011 at 07:26 | #7

    @rrarrimalion
    Alone is okay, they’re still lonely

  8. Pinkspiderable
    April 6th, 2011 at 07:31 | #8

    @littleteethkeith
    I can only imagine how you feel, I always had people in my life and then one day I woke up to night mare, or tragedy and I was alone. I am having a terrible time adjusting to this new loner stuff, I have to agree with you it sucks. : ( Mine is pretty much my own fault, losing everyone and thinking about getting close to people again is to painful.

  9. HyperFangirl
    April 6th, 2011 at 10:06 | #9

    I felt really down before I watched this video, I felt like all my friends were just shrugging me off. And I guess they were, and still are, because they’ve got other people to hang around with. But watching this video, I feel really uplifted, that it’s ok to be on my own! That I can enjoy a lot of things! This video really helped, so thank you for making and sharing it with us all =)

  10. bune88
    April 6th, 2011 at 11:33 | #10

    I dont like to dance :(

  11. gbgdgr
    April 6th, 2011 at 18:44 | #11

    “Take yourself out for dinner…”

    …and then what…?!

  12. nevin540
    April 6th, 2011 at 20:29 | #12

    That was beautiful, thanks for sharing this

  13. maddecent08
    April 6th, 2011 at 20:54 | #13

    wow amazing

  14. lucabrasi1337
    April 6th, 2011 at 23:44 | #14

    Cool.

  15. iZeltic
    April 7th, 2011 at 02:12 | #15

    Hi Grace, I love you :)

  16. Hitiphany
    April 7th, 2011 at 02:39 | #16

    Man, she really likes to be alone. Save for the person manning the camera, I guess..

  17. ASeasonInDecay
    April 7th, 2011 at 05:08 | #17

    She’s awesome, I loved this.

  18. Anna3Venere
    April 7th, 2011 at 10:39 | #18

    so tender, so sweet, so sad and olso so full of straight and hope! I put it in my favourite, so I can see it again and again and again.
    Anna

  19. DontCryMustDie1
    April 7th, 2011 at 11:37 | #19

    This video is worth voting… awesome… just AMAZING.

  20. ivylovesnerdz007
    April 7th, 2011 at 16:16 | #20

    Thank you.

  21. Niki4kata
    April 7th, 2011 at 20:13 | #21

    I love this video :) Everytime i feel lonely I play it and suddely I feel much better … Thank you so much for it

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    April 7th, 2011 at 21:16 | #22

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  23. Blonc
    April 7th, 2011 at 21:47 | #23

    Why do I get a feeling that Ivor Cutler would love this one?

  24. DoTheRightThing1978
    April 8th, 2011 at 03:46 | #24

    FAVORITE!

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    April 8th, 2011 at 04:12 | #25

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